In 1995 Robert Rodriguez unleashed Desperado onto the movie-going public. A remake/sequel to Rodriguez’s low-budget debut El Mariachi , Desperado stars Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi, a musician uniquely gifted in the art of destruction who goes on a rampage of revenge after a mysterious drug kingpin kills his girlfriend. Over the course of 105 lean minutes, Rodriguez treats the viewer to Danny Trejo as a knife-hurling killer, endless gunfights, and a bazooka hidden in a guitar case.

And how does Rodriguez choose to introduce the viewer to such mind-bending mayhem? With Steve Buscemi .

Whether you are familiar with Buscemi’s varied and fantastic career or just know him as the guy from the “Fellow Kids” meme, he would at a glance seem an unlikely choice for an action movie

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